Trillanes: Duterte has more hidden wealth

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is allegedly keeping more hidden wealth aside from the reported P211 million bank deposits that he did not declare in his statement of assets, liabilities and networth in 2014, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said on Wednesday.

(The P211 million was only from 2014. There’s more. But the auditors and accountants are still validating it.)

The senator earlier disclosed that Duterte, the frontrunner in the presidential surveys, allegedly had at least P211 million in an account at Bank of the Philippine Island branch on Julia Vargas Avenue in Pasig City jointly with daughter Sara.

On Duterte’s 69th birthday on March 28, 2014, eight cash deposits totaling P197 million were reportedly credited to the mayor’s bank account in the BPI Julia Vargas branch.

Asked why he is exposing this only now, Trillanes said: “E sana nga kung nakuha ko ito ng mas maaga, e ‘di nailabas ko to, ngayon lang ibinigay (If only I had gotten it earlier, then I would have exposed it earlier. But it was given to me only now),” he said.

“Apparently maraming nagmamahal sa ating bayan at maraming natatakot na magkaroon tayo ng isang psychopath as commander in chief (Apparently, many people who love the country are scared that we may have a psychopath commander in chief),” he said, apparently referring the leading presidential bet.

(I already warned him not to mess with me. He’s pretending to be poor and fooling the people, and it turns out that he has millions stashed in banks. We are not even talking about his other hidden wealth.)

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